Here are the key quotes from Tony Blair's speech to the Labour Party's spring conference in Glasgow, in which he said the Iraq crisis must be solved through the United Nations and that weapons inspectors would be given more time in Iraq.

Dr [Hans] Blix [UN chief weapons inspector] reported to the UN yesterday and there
will be more time given to inspections. He will report again on 28 February.

To
anyone familiar with Saddam's tactics of deception and evasion, there is a weary
sense of deja vu.

As ever, at the last minute, concessions are made. And as ever, it is the
long finger that is directing them.

The concessions are suspect. Unfortunately
the weapons are real.

The time needed is not the time it takes the inspectors to discover the weapons.

They are not a detective agency.

The time is the time necessary to make a judgement - is Saddam prepared to co-operate fully or not?

If he is, the inspectors can take as much time as they want.

I hope, even now, Iraq can be disarmed peacefully, with
or without Saddam.

But if we show weakness now, if we allow the plea for more time to become
just an excuse for prevarication until the moment for action passes, then it
will not only be Saddam who is repeating history.

The menace, and not just from Saddam, will grow; the authority of the UN
will be lost; and the conflict when it comes will be more bloody.

I rejoice that we live in a country where
peaceful protest is a natural part of our democratic process.

But I ask the marchers to understand this: I do not seek unpopularity as a
badge of honour. But sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of
conviction.

As you watch your TV pictures of the march, ponder this: if there
are 500,000 on that march, that is still less than the number of people whose
deaths Saddam has been responsible for.

If there are one million, that is still less than the number of people who
died in the wars he started.

If the result of peace is Saddam staying in power, not disarmed, then I
tell you there are consequences paid in blood for that decision too.

But these
victims will never be seen.

They will never feature on our TV screens or inspire
millions to take to the streets. But they will exist nonetheless.

Ridding the world of Saddam
would be an act of humanity. It is leaving him there that is in truth
inhumane.

The moral case against war has a moral answer: it is the
moral case for removing Saddam. It is not the reason we act. That must be
according to the UN mandate on weapons of mass destruction.

But it is the
reason, frankly, why if we do have to act, we should do so with a clear
conscience.

Yes, there are consequences of war. If we remove Saddam by force, people
will die and some will be innocent. And we must live with the consequences of our actions, even the unintended ones.

But there are also consequences of 'stop the war'.

If I took that advice, and did not insist on disarmament, yes, there would be no war.

But there would still be Saddam. Many of the people marching will say
they hate Saddam. But the consequences of taking their advice is that he stays in charge of Iraq, ruling the Iraqi people.

A country that in 1978, the year before he seized power, was richer than Malaysia or Portugal.

A country where today, 135 out of every 1,000 Iraqi
children die before the age of five - 70% of these deaths are from diarrhoea and
respiratory infections that are easily preventable.

Almost a third of children
born in the centre and south of Iraq have chronic malnutrition.

Where 60% of the people depend on food aid. Where half the population of
rural areas have no safe water. Where every year and now, as we speak, tens of
thousands of political prisoners languish in appalling conditions in Saddam's
jails and are routinely executed.

Where in the past 15 years over 150,000 Shia Muslims in southern Iraq and
Muslim Kurds in northern Iraq have been butchered; with up to four million
Iraqis in exile round the world, including 350,000 now in Britain.

This isn't a regime with weapons of mass destruction that is otherwise
benign. This is a regime that contravenes every single principle or value anyone
of our politics believes in.

There will be no march for the victims of Saddam, no protests about the
thousands of children that die needlessly every year under his rule, no
righteous anger over the torture chambers which if he is left in power, will be left in being.

At every stage, we should seek to avoid war. But
if the threat cannot be removed peacefully, please let us not fall for the
delusion that it can be safely ignored.

If we do not confront these twin menaces of rogue states with weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, they will not disappear.

They will just feed and
grow on our weakness.

When people say if you act, you will provoke these people;
when they say take a lower profile and these people will leave us alone,
remember al-Qaeda attacked the US, not the other way round.

Were the people of Bali in the forefront of the anti-terror campaign? Did
Indonesia make itself a target?

The terrorists won't be nice to us if we're nice
to them.

When Saddam drew us into the Gulf War, he wasn't provoked. He invaded Kuwait.

No-one seriously believes he is yet co-operating fully. In all
honesty, most people don't really believe he ever will.